END OF THE COACHING AGE 291 



diverse ; but, although there Avere coachmen who 

 took positions on raihvays, no one has ever heard 

 of one who became an engine-driver. 



But coachmen and guards and the passengers 

 they drove are all passed away, and the world 

 rolls on as though they had never existed. The 

 coaches, like the old Manchester " Defiance," 

 shown in the picture, rotting away in the deserted 

 inn-yard, were left to decay in unconsidered places 

 or were reduced to firewood ; nnlike many of the 

 old " Bull and Mouth " mails, which, after lying 

 there for some time idle, Avere bonglit and shijiped 

 to Spain, running for many years on Peninsula 

 roads, from Malaga in the south to Vittoria and 

 Salamanca in the north, and l3y a singular fate 

 visiting in their old age those blood-red fields 

 of victory Avhose fame they had once spread from 

 London all over triumphant England. 



